-----Original Message----- From: Jim Cornette [mailto:fc-cornette@insight.rr.com] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 8:46 PM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: FC6 - X server can't start - embedded ATI Rage XL AGP - DellPowerEdge 700
Charles Butterfield wrote:
After converting from FC5 to FC6 (clean install, NOT an upgrade), I
can
no longer get my X server to start.
Target System:
- Machine: Dell PowerEdge 700
- Integrated Video: ATI Rage XL AGP
Snippets from key files: /etc/sysconfig/hwconf -- includes the following: class: VIDEO bus: PCI detached: 0 desc: "ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL" video.xdriver: ati vendorId: 1002 deviceId: 4752 subVendorId: 1028 subDeviceId: 0167 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 3 pcidev: e pcifn:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf - includes the following: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "ati" EndSection
/var/log/Xorg.0.log -- end with: (II) Primary Device is: ISA (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0". (EE) No devices detected
Any advice about what to do next would be appreciated.
- Charlie Butterfield
This sounds like a bug to me since it is a pci device in hwconfig and
if
I am reading the snippets correctly, it is detected or the information is wrong in one or the other.
Jim
You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your
part.
Yeah. I've been digging into it and discovered (via strace) that Xorg is terminating its brute force pci scan of /proc/bus/pci/... a bit before encountering my video device, which is the last device in the pci space. scanpci and lspci show my video, but "Xorg -scanpci" doesn't show the device.
I've submitted is as Bugzilla bug 214050 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214050
Regards -- Charlie
I am having the same exact problem as Charles described.
Sadly, unlike him, I am not that much of an expert, and not sure that I have the time on my hand to fix this but futzing around with custom kernels.
This really sucks as it means doing everything from CLI. (please spare me the sarcasm, I did build my server anyway, but would like to have the option of using GUI as well)
Is there a way to insert another video card into the Poweredge and have it work that way? curious if this could be a fix for now, but not sure on how to get BIOS to detect it.
Thanks for emailing me any updates or suggestions on this.
sg_57 AT hotmail DOT com
Fedora Core 6 on Dell Poweredge 700 Single CPU kernel: 2.6-18.1.2849.fc6 Video: ATI Rage XL